Hillary On Erased Emails: Corrupt And Dim Or Corrupt And Cleverly Dim?
Andrew C. McCarthy writes at NRO:

The FBI-302 report of the interview of Hillary Clinton, along with the other notes of investigation released today, make for mind boggling reading. Most bracing is the fact that Mrs. Clinton had her server wiped clean sometime between March 25 and 31, 2015, only three weeks after the New York Times on March 3 broke the story of the server system's existence. David notes that, at the same time the Democrats' Janus-faced presidential nominee was outwardly taking the position that she "want[ed] the public to see my email," she was having her minions frantically purge her emails behind the scenes. I'd add that this was five months before she feigned ignorance when Fox News's Ed Henry pressed her on whether she'd "tried to wipe the entire server ... so there could be no email - no personal, no official." Henry finally asked, "Did you wipe the server?" Famously, Clinton scoffed, "Like with a cloth or something?" But we now know, as the FBI notes recount, she had the server purged with a sophisticated software program, BleachBit, which eventually made it extraordinarily difficult for the FBI to recover her emails, several thousand of which were successfully destroyed.

...Among the most eye-popping claims Clinton made to the FBI was that she was unfamiliar with the markings on classified documents. Yes, you read that correctly: one of the highest ranking national security officials in the United States government - an official whose day-to-day responsibilities extensively involved classified information; who had secure facilities installed in her two homes (in addition to her office) so she could review classified information in them; and who acknowledged to the FBI that, as secretary of state, she was designated by the president as "an Original Classification Authority," meaning she had the power to determine what information should be classified and at what level - had the audacity to tell the interviewing agents that she did not know what the different classification symbols in classified documents signified.

For example, when asked about an email chain containing the symbol "(C)" - meaning "confidential," a designation ubiquitous in classified documents - Clinton claimed not to know what it meant and, according to the notes, "could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order." This is a response so absurd as to be insulting (the interview notes do not tell us if the FBI asked her to find (A), (B) and (D) notations that would be necessary to have the "alphabetical order" story make sense - assuming, for argument's sake that one would indulge the possibility that this could be a truthful answer from a classified information consumer as high-level as Clinton).

Mind you, Mrs. Clinton was not just secretary of state for four years. She was a United States senator for eight years, during nearly all of which she was assigned to the Senate Armed Services Committee (and such Armed Services components as the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities). Reviewing classified information, including highly sensitive national defense secrets, is a routine part of that committee's work. Clinton also claimed that she "did not pay attention to the 'level' of classified information."

The interview notes do not explain how the FBI squared this with, for example, (a) Clinton's acknowledgement that top-secret "special access program" (SAP) information was delivered to her by paper in her office and she knew it was supposed to be handled with extraordinary care; and (b) Clinton's admission that she made use of her Original Classification Authority at times (though she couldn't say how often). That means she had to have assigned to some information the very classification levels with which she portrays herself as scarcely familiar.